Lead Rail Systems Engineering Manager (SCADA/SISS)

Siemens Mobility; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

24/7 mental health support

Subsidised gym memberships

Subsidised Bupa healthcare

Enhanced sick pay

Pension matching

Life Assurance

Perks at Work discounts

Cycle to Work scheme

Annual Bonus

Job summary

Siemens Mobility is seeking a Lead Project Engineering Manager (CIS) in Rail Infrastructure to shoulder end‑to‑end engineering delivery from pre‑qualification through to hand‑back. You will guide a diverse team of engineers across SCADA, SISS, Electrification, and Civils, reporting to the Head of SCADA & SISS Engineering, and contributing to major UK rail initiatives such as HS2.

You will lead with safety and compliance, optimize resources and schedules, and partner with contractors and

Qualifications

• Established professional status and credibility within the UK rail industry with experience of SISS, Line/Station Management Systems, Traction Power SCADA and/or Asset Management systems.
• Experience of design and delivery within a multidiscipline environment.
• Strong track record of managing small to large multidisciplinary teams.
• Rail systems engineering experience of requirements specification engineering and management, design for robustness across the whole system lifecycle, safe-by-design, system integration and final verification.
• Demonstrates ability to operate effectively in environments requiring informed, calculated risk-taking.
• Background in multi‑discipline environments such as SCADA, SISS, control systems, telecoms, M&E or line wide system integration and software‑intensive systems (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Being the champion for ensuring the safe delivery of projects with responsibilities for Engineering Safety, CDM compliance, Health and Safety legislation, Company procedures including development of the Project Safety Plan
• Allocating engineering resources to projects for the preparation of engineering plans, specifications, designs, implementation, test, delivery and commissioning to ensure these are delivered to time, quality, and cost parameters agreed with Project and Commercial management
• Ensuring the engineering community create and monitor engineering plans to report progress against budget and timeline, taking proactive and decisive remedial action when required
• Preparing and maintaining project resource schedules, proactively identifying and updating resource requests to resource owners, ensuring maximum utilisation of staff within the engineering teams
• Working with the Head of SCADA and SISS Engineering to achieve efficiencies in project and system engineering delivery while fostering engineering excellence, promoting consistent design practices and the identification/adoption of new processes, tools and methods of working
• Maintaining continuous communication with contractors and customers in the development and implementation of projects to ensure a uniformity of purpose and common targets

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

SCADA/SISS knowledge

Job description

Siemens Mobility is seeking a Lead Project Engineering Manager (CIS) in Rail Infrastructure to shoulder end‑to‑end engineering delivery from pre‑qualification through to hand‑back. You will guide a diverse team of engineers across SCADA, SISS, Electrification, and Civils, reporting to the Head of SCADA & SISS Engineering, and contributing to major UK rail initiatives such as HS2.

You will lead with safety and compliance, optimize resources and schedules, and partner with contractors and